Built by a mother who learned the hard way that information opens doors.

I grew up in East London, raised by my mum alongside my two brothers. When I was 16 our family went through a crisis, and I still came out of my GCSEs with 8 A*s. Sport gave me a second language: I represented Great Britain as a junior javelin thrower.

I went to Nottingham with a fractured back and still graduated with a 2:1 in Economics, then took a full athletic scholarship to the University of Florida for my master's. Harvard had scouted me, and I missed it. Not for lack of ability, but because nobody around me knew how that process worked. It taught me the lesson this community is built on: the greatest threat to success is the information you do not have.

I interned at Goldman Sachs, Barclays and Citi, often as the only Black person in the room. In 2016, at 24, I started BYP Network so fewer people would walk into those rooms alone. It grew to 200,000 members in more than 100 countries, working with 1,700 corporate clients.

In 2021 I lost my mother while I was pregnant with my daughter, and I named her Yetunde, after her grandmother. Raising Yetunde and her brother Rio, I keep thinking about everything my mum did without a map: no network, no inside information, no village. Raising Greats is what I wish had existed for her. It is what I am building for you.